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TIL the world’s first supermodel, Evelyn Nesbit, inspired her coal baron husband to shoot another man at a performance at Madison Square Garden. The trial was so full of shocking details about her relationships that a church group lobbied for a publication ban, and the jury had to be sequestered.

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